Inventor Quotations

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.

Frankly I think that's unfair, ... ...I think it's possible to take issue with the content of that film. I think it's certainly fair to debate what it said about the time and what it continues to say about the issue of race relations in the United States. But I don't think that that is his whole identity. The man was one of the great figures in film history, he was the inventor of the epic film.

God bless the inventor of sleep, the cloak that covers all men's thoughts, the food that cures all hunger . . . the balancing weight that levels the shepherd with the king and the simple with the wise.

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.

Staples Invention Quest gives hope to the everyday inventor and helps them understand the steps it takes to bring new product ideas to life. I was amazed and inspired by Sarah's SpindleRack along with the other unique ideas that everyone had.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

an inventor of a new type of poetry, a musician of the cinema.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.

Duane Miller has been the most prolific researcher and inventor I have ever met. He demonstrates great zeal for transferring discoveries from his laboratory to the public through health care professionals.

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

This company has a lot of leading-edge chip designers behind them, as well as the inventor of Linux. So they've got the skills set to develop something that is based around the current paradigm that takes advantage of the technologies that exist today, as opposed to technologies that have either become obsolete -- or certainly old -- over the last five years.

It's strange, it's a British Inventor of the Year and I'm Australian, but I've been here for 25 years, so I guess I'm sort of qualified.

If you don't know Tom Lehrer, you should - in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful.

Invention promotion and licensing firms that prey upon American's independent inventor community ... will not be tolerated.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.

I am an inventor of music.

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

Death is the inventor of God.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.